Anyway, let's be serious now.
Tatsuya seems to be portraying Buddha as the quintessential Nietzschean ‹bermensch of the webcomic. But the nature of this particular strip is not quite surreal. It is instead a criticism of the Hegelian dialectical conflict between the postmodern hyperreality of our present state, referenced by the colloquial "emo" displayed on a signpost, and the Judeo-Christian morality of the past that synthesized it.
This is just stating the obvious, of course.

Anyway, let's be serious now.
Tatsuya seems to be portraying Buddha as the quintessential Nietzschean ‹bermensch of the webcomic. But the nature of this particular strip is not quite surreal. It is instead a criticism of the Hegelian dialectical conflict between the postmodern hyperreality of our present state, referenced by the colloquial "emo" displayed on a signpost, and the Judeo-Christian morality of the past that synthesized it.
This is just stating the obvious, of course.